cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/[email protected]/p/1576951/growth-of-the-fediverse-20260614

Takeaways:

• All-Time MAU Peak (in last 7 Days): Vernissage (168)
• Not a great week, most software lost users

Monthly Active Users^[1]^:

Software	Current	Yesterday[1D]	Last Week[7D]	Last Month[30D]	3 Months Ago[90D]	6 Months Ago[180D]	1 Year Ago[365D]	All-Time Maximum
Piefed	4203	4202	4202	4378	5493	1813	1079	6179
Lemmy	35269	35223	35318	35318	37557	35038	47066	72618
Mbin	757	758	757	755	785	728	916	3967
Threadiverse	40229	40183	40277	40451	43835	37579	49061
Mastodon	727346	731847	733466	743655	783003	681829	738272	2737163
NodeBB	63117	63893	64776	64887	52332	35702	69432	76801
Pixelfed	102319	102569	100185	87001	116530	83562	138973	338813
Peertube	51002	51250	52936	47725	41058	27682	28676	53333
Writefreely	10318	10375	18617	13683	8558	971	10506	18802
Loops	4117	3995	4182	4115	6009	2008	26563	29821
Bookwyrm	1193	1197	1184	1535	1573	2815	2866	9429
NeoDB	1757	1753	1770	1751	1850	1758	1748	2025
Friendica	2464	2457	2454	2486	2492	1289	1755	4734
Forgejo	123	123	114	112	103	411	277	1168
Catodon	112	112	119	119	0	0	0	128
Funkwhale	201	202	204	247	303	196	213	1114
Vernissage	161	164	158	142	120	72	93	168
Flohmarkt	12	12	17	15	30	11	0	40
Fediverse	1004471	1010132	1020459	1007924	1057796	875885	1068435

Difference^[1]^:

Software	-1 Day[1D]	-1 Week[7D]	-1 Month[30D]	-3 Months[90D]	-6 Months[180D]	-1 Year[365D]	-All-Time Maximum
Piefed	1	1	-175	-1290	2390	3124	-1976
Lemmy	46	-49	-49	-2288	231	-11797	-37349
Mbin	-1	0	2	-28	29	-159	-3210
Threadiverse	46	-48	-222	-3606	2650	-8832
Mastodon	-4501	-6120	-16309	-55657	45517	-10926	-2009817
NodeBB	-776	-1659	-1770	10785	27415	-6315	-13684
Pixelfed	-250	2134	15318	-14211	18757	-36654	-236494
Peertube	-248	-1934	3277	9944	23320	22326	-2331
Writefreely	-57	-8299	-3365	1760	9347	-188	-8484
Loops	122	-65	2	-1892	2109	-22446	-25704
Bookwyrm	-4	9	-342	-380	-1622	-1673	-8236
NeoDB	4	-13	6	-93	-1	9	-268
Friendica	7	10	-22	-28	1175	709	-2270
Forgejo	0	9	11	20	-288	-154	-1045
Catodon	0	-7	-7	0	0	0	-16
Funkwhale	-1	-3	-46	-102	5	-12	-913
Vernissage	-3	3	19	41	89	68	-7
Flohmarkt	0	-5	-3	-18	1	0	-28
Fediverse	-5661	-15988	-3453	-53325	128586	-63964

Change (%)^[1]^:

Software	-1 Day[1D]	-1 Week[7D]	-1 Month[30D]	-3 Months[90D]	-6 Months[180D]	-1 Year[365D]	-All-Time Maximum
Piefed	0.0%	0.0%	-4.0%	-23.5%	131.8%	289.5%	-32.0%
Lemmy	0.1%	-0.1%	-0.1%	-6.1%	0.7%	-25.1%	-51.4%
Mbin	-0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	-3.6%	4.0%	-17.4%	-80.9%
Threadiverse	0.1%	-0.1%	-0.5%	-8.2%	7.1%	-18.0%
Mastodon	-0.6%	-0.8%	-2.2%	-7.1%	6.7%	-1.5%	-73.4%
NodeBB	-1.2%	-2.6%	-2.7%	20.6%	76.8%	-9.1%	-17.8%
Pixelfed	-0.2%	2.1%	17.6%	-12.2%	22.4%	-26.4%	-69.8%
Peertube	-0.5%	-3.7%	6.9%	24.2%	84.2%	77.9%	-4.4%
Writefreely	-0.5%	-44.6%	-24.6%	20.6%	962.6%	-1.8%	-45.1%
Loops	3.1%	-1.6%	0.0%	-31.5%	105.0%	-84.5%	-86.2%
Bookwyrm	-0.3%	0.8%	-22.3%	-24.2%	-57.6%	-58.4%	-87.3%
NeoDB	0.2%	-0.7%	0.3%	-5.0%	-0.1%	0.5%	-13.2%
Friendica	0.3%	0.4%	-0.9%	-1.1%	91.2%	40.4%	-48.0%
Forgejo	0.0%	7.9%	9.8%	19.4%	-70.1%	-55.6%	-89.5%
Catodon	0.0%	-5.9%	-5.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	-12.5%
Funkwhale	-0.5%	-1.5%	-18.6%	-33.7%	2.6%	-5.6%	-82.0%
Vernissage	-1.8%	1.9%	13.4%	34.2%	123.6%	73.1%	-4.2%
Flohmarkt	0.0%	-29.4%	-20.0%	-60.0%	9.1%	0.0%	-70.0%
Fediverse	-0.6%	-1.6%	-0.3%	-5.0%	14.7%	-6.0%

Tracker Comparison^[1,2]^:

Software	Fediverse-Observer^[1]^	FediDB ^[2]^
Piefed	4203	4761
Lemmy	35269	42985
Mbin	757	1312
Threadiverse	40229	49058
Mastodon	727346	979072
NodeBB	63117	10342
Pixelfed	102319	106953
Peertube	51002	46691
Writefreely	10318	9026
Loops	4117	4136
Bookwyrm	1193	3500
NeoDB	1757	1783
Friendica	2464	3182
Forgejo	123	1659
Catodon	112	0
Funkwhale	201	751
Vernissage	161	164
Flohmarkt	12	0
Fediverse	1004471	1216317

• Source: [1] Fediverse-Observer, [2] FediDB

Notes:

1. Threadiverse is Piefed, Lemmy, and Mbin. Fediverse only accounts for listed software [17], not the other [112] software tracked by Fediverse-Observer.
2. Fediverse-Observer provides daily MAU back to 20221130. FediDB only provides a current snapshot (snapshot within the last 15 minutes, no time series data) and only tracks some of the software [67].
3. FediDB seems to use unclear math to get there counts and overestimate the MAU on most software (see previous post, if interested in learning more).